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Andy P. Chautin

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Gulf Land Structures, LLC has announced that Michael S. Conrad has recently joined the company in a business development role. Conrad brings 23 years of experience in the offshore services business in a sales and operations capacity. With the addition of Conrad, Gulf Land Structures will now expand its business and provide offshore industrial insulation services, offshore carpentry and refurbishment services, offshore plumbing services, mold abatement services and asbestos abatement services. Gulf Land Structures is an offshore living quarters company established in 2007 and is located in Lafayette.

Farmers Merchants Bank & Trust announces the promotion of Andy P. Chautin to assistant vice president, loan officer. Chautin oversees the lending operations, including consumer loans, mortgage loans and construction loans, in the Arnaudville branch. He began his banking career with FM Bank in 2008 as teller and later held positions as customer service representative and branch manager. The Arnaudville native graduated from the University of Louisiana at Monroe with a degree in English and later attended graduate school at the university. He's participated in numerous courses, seminars and leadership summits sponsored by the Louisiana Bankers Association. Chautin is also an active member of the Arnaudville Area Chamber of Commerce, serving on the board of directors from 2010 to 2012 and as president in 2011. He is the captain of the FM Bank softball team and co-chairman of the Corporate Challenge, an annual 5K race in Acadiana.

Chad Meaux was recently welcomed as a new addition to the Boys & Girls Clubs Corporate Board. The duties of the Boys & Girls Club Corporate Board members are to set policies and fund policies. Meaux, a Kaplan native, graduated from college in 1984 and began working in the fire and safety business. Meaux is the president/CEO of Fire & Safety Specialties. He founded the company in 2002. FSS provides fire suppression systems and other safety measures to better protect the companies they serve. FSS now has 125 employees. Meaux helped form the Louisiana division of Automatic Fire Alarm Association and served on its board of directors for several years. He served on many manufacturer committees to assist with the development of new and improved fire detection and fire suppression products.

Christine Walters was recently welcomed as a new addition to the Boys & Girls Clubs Corporate Board. Walters attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and has been with Capital One for 20 years. Walters is currently the branch manager at the Capital One Bank on Ambassador Caffery. She has been in management for 14 years.

Frank Cassulo was recently welcomed as a new addition to the Boys & Girls Clubs Corporate Board. Cassulo is the West Area Operations Manager for Chevron North America Exploration and Production, based in Lafayette, a position he has held since January. He has had a number of positions in Chevron within the Power, LNG, gas and oil sectors of the business and held positions with finance, commercial and operations responsibilities. He moved to Lafayette from Bangkok, Thailand, where he was general manager, operations, for CUEL, an affiliate of Chevron, and a second assignment as field superintendent managing engineering and offshore operations for Chevron Thailand. He earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University and a master's degree in business administration from Wake Forest University. Cassulo has been an active member in the community serving his school board, little league board, and he has served on the Chevron Federal Credit Union asset management committee.

Megan E. Donohue was recently welcomed as a new addition to the Boys & Girls Clubs Corporate Board. She is serving as a representative of the Junior League of Lafayette. Donohue is a native of Abbeville and currently resides in Lafayette. Donohue is an associate attorney at Jones Walker LLP in the firm's business and commercial litigation group at the Lafayette office. Donohue's practice includes a wide range of business and commercial litigation cases as well as environmental/legacy litigation. Donohue joined Jones Walker in September 2009, after graduating from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University. Donohue is also a graduate of accounting from Louisiana State University in 2006.

Monte Wilson with Our Lady of Lourdes was recently welcomed as a new addition to the Boys & Girls Clubs Corporate Board.

Steve Bodden was recently welcomed as a new addition to the Boys & Girls Clubs Corporate Board. Bodden graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette with a degree in petroleum engineering. He has worked in the oil and gas industry for 25 years. He began his career with Conoco Incorporated in Lafayette and was subsequently transferred to Midland, Texas. He then accepted a job with Schlumberger and moved back to Lafayette. After five years with Schlumberger, he worked as an independent consultant for three years. He is now a deepwater operations manager at Stone Energy Corporation, where he has worked for nine years. Stone Energy is a natural oil and natural gas exploration and production company headquartered in Lafayette, with additional offices in New Orleans, Houston and Morgantown, W.Va. He is a current Acadiana API board member, Boys & Girls Clubs board member, Offshore Operating Committee board member and is a past chairman of the Evangeline Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Chase Design Group, an architecture firm with offices in New Orleans and Lafayette recently announced its name change to Chase Marshall Architects, a professional architecture corporation, following the addition of Nick Marshall as partner. Founded by Jay Chase in 2006, the firm has been recognized for projects including fire stations, office buildings, retail buildings and health care facilities. The team has completed projects in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas and is currently undertaking ventures in California, Virginia and the southeast. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Marshall relocated to New Orleans where he earned a master's in architecture from Tulane University. He is licensed in Louisiana and has more than 20 years of experience. He has also obtained his LEED certification to design energy-efficient buildings. Chase graduated with a bachelor's in architecture from LSU. He has more than 20 years of experience managing projects for a variety of clients and is currently licensed to practice architecture in Louisiana and 10 other states. Chase is also a past president of the AIA South Louisiana Chapter and a member of Leadership Lafayette.

Coccolare Spa's Renee Mouton recently completed certification allowing her to train other spa professionals to use the SmoothShapes body contouring system. Mouton's role as Coccolare's SmoothShapes technician has expanded to include training capabilities after completing a course by the equipment's manufacturer, Cynosure. She has demonstrated expert use of the noninvasive, body-shaping machine. A native of Mobile, Ala., and 2005 graduate of Blue Cliff College in Lafayette, Mouton has held a license in massage therapy for eight years and has been employed by Coccolare Spa for three years. Mouton specializes in SmoothShapes operations but is also experienced in Swedish, deep tissue, prenatal, warm stone and neuromuscular massages, along with orthopedic sports message and orthopedic message of the shoulder. Coccolare Spa is a world-class medical spa that operates under the direction of Board Certified Plastic Surgeon, Cynthia A. Glass.

Jennifer Comeaux has joined MidSouth Bank as first vice president and loan operations manager. For the past 11 years, Comeaux worked for Many-based Peoples State Bank, serving as chief financial officer since early 2009. Peoples State Bank merged with MidSouth Bank in December. As loan operations manager at MidSouth Bank, Comeaux is responsible for the bank's loan documentation and loan administration functions, which are housed in three operations centers. Comeaux has more than 15 years of banking experience. Before joining Peoples State Bank, she was commercial portfolio manager for Bank One in Shreveport. A Sabine Parish native, Comeaux earned a bachelor of business administration degree in finance from LSU.

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Hiring and PromotionsGulf Land Structures, LLC has announced that Michael S. Conrad has recently joined the company in a business development role. Conrad brings 23 years of experience in the